Have you browsed Google Play? :) Or Amazon appstore for that matter.
Why? Does Apple allow you to download apps from Google Play or Amazon?
Readit Newsbitpush commented on 2026 Apple introducing more ads to increase opportunity in search results ads.apple.com/app-store/h... · Posted by u/punnerud
bitpush commented on Are Apple gift cards safe to redeem? daringfireball.net/linked... · Posted by u/tosh
It's not that. Be as insulting as you wish, but this conversation shows that a significant number of folks simply can't understand any way to make money, except by harvesting and selling PiD.
Making and selling hardware is difficult. Really difficult, but some companies have been doing it successfully, throughout recorded history.
It's really strange to see it being dismissed as "impossible," nowadays.
Here are the facts -
Apple makes tons (read: billions of dollars) from ads. Hence, Apple is in the business of ads, have sales people working with advertisers to make targeting, personalization work.
I take no side in "ads are bad" argument, but you have to accept that Apple is in the ads business, whether you like ads or not.
bitpush commented on Are Apple gift cards safe to redeem? daringfireball.net/linked... · Posted by u/tosh
Apple's ad business is estimated to be at $6.5 billion annually as of 2024[0]. Since then, they've decided to bring ads to Apple Maps. And of course there was the infamous ad for some movie on Apple TV injected into Apple Wallet earlier this year.
Just because they're not Google's size doesn't mean they don't have people making product decisions that will eventually sacrifice privacy for profits.
[0] https://digiday.com/marketing/when-it-comes-to-ads-apple-isn...
It hurts my brain that people still parrot the fact that "Apple doesnt do ads". As you rightly point out, Ads for Apple is a multi-billion dollar business, bigger than many other ad networks, and ad exchanges.
The reality distortion field is strong, even with some HNers.
bitpush commented on Apple Announces Changes to iOS in Japan apple.com/sn/newsroom/202... · Posted by u/tech234a
> While these safeguards do not eliminate the new risks
Stay classy Apple.
bitpush commented on Gemini 3 Flash: Frontier intelligence built for speed blog.google/products/gemi... · Posted by u/meetpateltech
Apple’s most interesting value proposition was ignoring all this AI junk and letting users click “not interested” on Apple Intelligence and never see it again.
From a business perspective it’s a smart move (inasmuch as “integrating AI” is the default which I fundamentally disagree with) since Apple won’t be left holding the bag on a bunch of AI datacenters when/if the AI bubble pops.
I don’t want to lose trust in Apple, but I literally moved away from Google/Android to try and retain control over my data and now they’re taking me… right back to Google. Guess I’ll retreat further into self-hosting.
> Apple’s most interesting value proposition was ignoring all this AI junk
Did you forget all the Apple Intelligence stuff? They were never "ignoring" if anything they talked a big talk, and then failed so hard.
The whole iPhone 16 was marketed as AI first phone (including in billboards). They had full length ads running touting AI benefits.
Apple was never "ignoring" or "sitting AI out". They were very much in it. And they failed.
bitpush commented on Gemini 3 Flash: Frontier intelligence built for speed blog.google/products/gemi... · Posted by u/meetpateltech
Not a great example: Snapchat made it through the slump, successfully captured the next generation of teenagers, and now has around 500M DAUs.
You might not remember, but Snapchat was once supposed to take on Facebook. The founder was so cocky that they declined being bought by Facebook because they thought they could be bigger.
I never said Snapchat is dead. It still lives on, but it is a shell of the past. They had no moat, and the competitors caught up (Instagram, Whatsapp and even LinkedIn copied Snapchat with stories .. and rest is history)
bitpush commented on Gemini 3 Flash: Frontier intelligence built for speed blog.google/products/gemi... · Posted by u/meetpateltech
For average consumers, I think very much yes, and this is where OpenAI's brand recognition shines.
But for anyone using LLM's to help speed up academic literature reviews where every detail matters, or coding where every detail matters, or anything technical where every detail matters -- the differences very much matter. And benchmarks serve just to confirm your personal experience anyways, as the differences between models becomes extremely apparent when you're working in a niche sub-subfield and one model is showing glaring informational or logical errors and another mostly gets it right.
And then there's a strong possibility that as experts start to say "I always trust <LLM name> more", that halo effect spreads to ordinary consumers who can't tell the difference themselves but want to make sure they use "the best" -- at least for their homework. (For their AI boyfriends and girlfriends, other metrics are probably at play...)
> OpenAI's brand recognition shines.
We've seen this movie before. Snapchat was the darling. Infact, it invented the entire category and was dominating the format for years. Then it ran out of time.
Now very few people use Snapchat, and it has been reduced to a footnote in history.
If you think I'm exaggerating, that just proves my point.
bitpush commented on Google works to erode Nvidia's software advantage with Meta's help reuters.com/business/goog... · Posted by u/p2detar
Is there anything preventing incumbents from developing their own ASIC equivalent of a google TPU?
Or maybe the GPUs are not really that different from TPU.
To me, one of the secret sauce of AI chips is Memory amd Interconnect bandwidth. Memory everyone is using the same HBM series. No difgerentiation. Multi chasis Interconnect is already not bottlenecked vs compute. So GPUs aren,t any worse.
Ammuter Guesswork!
> developing their own ASIC equivalent of a google TPU?
It'll be same story as Apple and their Mx chips. Lots have been trying and none have matched even after many generations. And not many companies have the pockets to build a successful chip, at scale, and be efficient.
bitpush commented on OpenAI in talks with Amazon about investment that could exceed $10B cnbc.com/2025/12/16/opena... · Posted by u/mgh2
Hear me out. I'm excited about this if it means making shopping better. I want a better shopping assistant. I want someone to do all the work for me (read reviews, do product spec comparisons, price, shipping etc) and just tell me what to buy for 85% of things I purchase online. ChatGPT has this potential, but sucks at it. I'm probably going to buy it on Amazon. Work together and it'll be magic for me.
What makes you think ChatGPT will serve you, and not Amazon?
> "Hey ChatGPT, help me find a USB-C charger that has 3 ports and around 100W power"
>> "Absolutely. Here's [insert product] which matches most of your criteria. I should also mention this is a promoted response. Read on more to see the really best product, which is [another product]"
bitpush commented on Ad Blockers helped kill the open web christianheilmann.com/202... · Posted by u/cdrnsf
No, advertisers killed the web by making it user-hostile and profit-first. Ad blockers are the FO part of FAFO.
I use adblockers, but I'll play devil's advocate to understand your position a bit better.
The article argues this as well, but how do you want all these publishers to make money? If I pay for NYT, that's not a dollar spent on Washington Post or LA times or The Globe. With advertisements, a "little bit" was spend on all of those sites.
So what's the way out here? Please dont say that everything should be free.